Sunwook Kim, Clara-Jumi Kang by Beethoven, Respighi, Chausson, Franck, ant 27 vas 2024, Nuo (2024/2024), Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

After Schubert's trios with their accomplice Edgar Moreau last month, Sunwook Kim and Clara-Jumi Kang find themselves one-on-one for a program combining discoveries and hits. The evening begins with the first of ten sonatas for piano and violin composed by Beethoven where the Mozart spirit still hovers. Then two rarities arise: after Respighi's sonata which bathes in a strange and almost lunar harmonic world, make way for the chamber music version of Chausson's Poème opus 25. First titled The Song of Triumphant Love (in reference to Turgenev), then Poème symphonique and finally Poème, this page is originally a concerto for violin and orchestra. This version for piano and violin retains all its brilliance and this singular poetry specific to Chausson. Finally, to conclude the evening, one of the masterpieces of the repertoire for piano and violin, the grandiose and fascinating sonata by César Franck where the use of the cyclic theme so dear to the composer gives all its unity to the work, while allowing a most elaborate dialogue between the two instruments.